Senior Protection & Automation Engineer — Customer Solutions

Job

521755

Posted since

23-Sep-2026

Organization

Smart Infrastructure

Field of work

Company

Experienced Professional

Job type

Full-time

Hybrid (Remote/Office)

Employment type

Permanent

Location(s)

• Wendell
  - North Carolina
  - United States of America

Here at Siemens, we take pride in enabling sustainable progress through technology. We do this through empowering customers by combining the real and digital worlds. Improving how we live, work, and move today and for the next generation! We know that the only way a business thrives is if our people are thriving. That’s why we always put our people first.

Our global, diverse team would be happy to support you and challenge you to grow in new ways. Who knows where our shared journey will take you?

Transform the everyday with us!

The Senior Protection & Automation Application Engineer supports the development, validation, and standardization of customer-focused solutions within the Siemens Protection & Automation portfolio.

As part of the Customer Solutions & Innovations (CSI) team, this role serves as a technical resource for critical initiatives, new technologies, and sophisticated customer applications. The engineer is responsible for defining business priorities, customer requirements, and portfolio capabilities into practical, validated, and scalable solutions that can be deployed by the broader organization.

This hybrid Senior Protection and Automation Application Engineer position will be based at Siemens E&A US Headquarters in Wendell, NC.Local candidates are encouraged to apply. Located in the heart of the Research Triangle about 20 minutes east of Raleigh, Wendell offers top-rated schools, a mild climate, easy access to mountains and coast, and a cost of living that allows our compensation to go further.

The position involves developing, configuring, testing, documenting, and demonstrating applications that use Siemens protection, automation, monitoring, control, and digitalization technologies. Responsibilities include system integration, technical validation, proof-of-concept development, laboratory testing, customer demonstrations, reference architecture development, and creation of engineering standards, application guides, and reusable solution templates.

The engineer will support a broad range of initiatives involving automation platforms, protection systems, microgrids, digital substations, energy management, power quality, cybersecurity, and cloud-connected applications. Assignments may range from first-of-a-kind technology evaluations and pilot projects to development of standardized offerings, technical baselines, and customer-facing demonstrations.

In addition to technical execution, this role works closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Customer Technical Partners, Business Development, Marketing, and R&D organizations to help bridge the gap between portfolio capabilities and practical customer applications. The position requires strong technical fundamentals, hands-on problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and the flexibility to support changing business priorities across multiple solution domains.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or other closely related technical field.
• Five (5) or more years of directly related experience, including protection, automation, SCADA, RTU, power systems, or related applications.
• Strong technical knowledge and practical application experience in one or more of the identified technology focus areas including: SIPROTEC 5 Protection Relays, SIPROTEC V (Virtualized Protection), IEC 61850…